This is the kid at school that nobody likes. Not because they're stupid, or annoying, or a bully, but because they suck up to the teacher. They'll bring the teacher the traditional apple every day, they'll always volunteer to answer any question, and more often then not they'll be The Informant to the teacher, tattling on the other students whenever they make the smallest infringement of the rules.

Needless to say, most of the other students tend to despise this person, and they're often portrayed as a traitor to the rest of the class. Typical of series that are set in elementary school. The older the kids are in the setting, the better the chance that the teacher really hates their guts.

Harry Potter: Hermione Granger started off as this, but then got Character Development, starting when Harry and Ron saved her life and she lied to get them out of trouble.

Teacher's Pet by Johanna Hurwitz. Cricket initially resents the new girl, who seems to please the teacher better than she could - until she learns that the new girl is just a genuinely nice person, and that she doesn't have to be a teacher's pet to be special.

Agnan of French novel series Le Petit Nicolas. And in this setting where the turbulent classmates are the main protagonists, he's portrayed as a Butt Monkey.

Chichikov from Dead Souls became this when he had a Sadist Teacher who'd give the best grades to, well, teacher's pets and bad grades to smart kids who were even a little bit unruly - or showed too much smartness.

In the Rainbow Magic series, one book has Steffi, a no-nonsense sort of girl who tells the teacher about the April Fool's pranks—though part of it's because of Jack Frost taking her sense of humor away.

Niles Sparks in The Terrible Two. He's the type who always has his hair combed neatly and is the first to have his hand raised for a question. It's actually a coverup for him being a prankster. Not only is he the last person you'd suspect, as a student aide he has access to things and places that other students don't, like the teacher's lounge.

Live-Action TV

Annie in Community. For example, instead of putting his binder back, Señor Chang drops it on the floor and orders Annie to pick it up.

Detective Amy Santiago in Brooklyn Nine-Nine was apparently this in her youth (or at least wanted to be this; there's some hints that the teacher wasn't very fond of her either).

Holt: Santiago, when I greet the Deputy Chief I want you there by my side to make a good impression. No offence, but you are something of a teacher's pet. Santiago: [Proudly] None taken! People love their pets. [Detective Diaz gives her a withering stare]

An All That skit had two students actually competing to be the teacher's pet.

Her friends are so jealous You know how bad girls get Sometimes it's not so easy To be the teacher's pet

Video Games

Aqua from Kingdom Hearts: Birth by Sleep is a more benevolent version. Nomura has described her as an 'Honour student-type', and she follows Master Eraqus' teachings the closest out of the three protagonists, even spying on Terra for him. This does not stop her being very loyal to the other two, however. Mess with them and she will kick your ass.

Also, it turns out this is a very much justified example of the trope, because Terra ends up repeatedly tricked into committing evil up to and including killing Master Eraqus, and Ven leaves home without permission and almost gets used as the X-Blade. So Aqua's path was the correct one all along.

In Yandere Simulator, "Teacher's Pet" is a personality type for students. If a Teacher's Pet finds a corpse or you commit a murder in front of them, they will run for a teacher and bring them to the scene of the crime. If you can clean up the crime scene and dispose of the corpse before they come, the teacher will assume the student to be playing a bad joke on her, and the student will be mentally scarred from the experience.

School swot Einstein in Skool Daze and Back To Skool answers every question in class, prefacing the answer with "Please sir, I cannot tell a lie...". Will also tattle on other students' misdeeds.

On Arthur when Mr. Ratburn moved in with Arthur's family for a little while (his roof needed repair) the other kids said that Arthur would now be the teacher's pet and he'd always get high marks. Then he got an "A" on a math(?) quiz, apparently confirming their suspicions, although Arthur cliamed it was because he studied. Binky taunted him with a song:

Ginger Foutley from As Told by Ginger is a self-described "science geek" and frequent kiss up to her chemistry teacher, Mr. Celia. She's also happens to be a favorite of her English teacher, Ms. Zorski, due to her talent for writing.

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